據天然氣加工新聞網2022年3月11日報道，在美國休斯敦舉行的CERAWeek會議關于零碳技術的討論中，專家們一致認為，數字化是提供實時解決方案的必要條件，因為能源工業的目標是實現凈零排放目標。 

法國施耐德電氣公司首席戰略和可持續發展官、施耐德電氣公司執行委員會成員Gwenaelle Avice-Huet表示，圍繞能源生產和消費的數字化和行為變化為整個行業的能效提供了機會。

Avice-Hue 表示，“我們一直在與一家叫做Autograde的公司合作，優化能源系統和優化網絡。 從根本上說，你擁有許多正在生產能源的資產。 你擁有我們正在考慮的大型資產，如煤炭、天然氣或風能和太陽能等可再生能源，你還擁有分散式能源。”“能源轉型的目標是提高能源使用的效率。 我們不僅要考慮生產，還要考慮能源的使用和我們消耗能源的方式。這就是我們在Autograde公司為公用事業部門所做的，這樣他們就可以擁有分散式的能源資源，同時，人們希望與專家合作進行能源管理。” 

雖然云數據存儲已經使實時解決方案在整個行業得到應用，但專家們還討論了更廣泛范圍內數字化的好處，包括安全與保障、氫等能源載體的商業化、 提高旨在減少碳排放的開發項目和合作伙伴關系的進程速度。 

微軟公司能源行業副總裁達里爾·威利斯表示，在與能源公司討論數字化時，考慮運營的連續性和最小化風險是重中之重。

“微軟公司正在做的不僅僅是云計算，它真正考慮的是實現凈零需要哪些技術。 我們有自己的內部凈零雄心，但我們也意識到，如果世界其他國家不在2050年或更早之前實現凈零，對微軟公司來說，到2030年前實現凈零還不夠好，”威利斯如是說。“我們下了一個很大的賭注，我們創造了自己的旅程，致力于碳捕獲和存儲。 對于一家科技公司來說，參與這個項目是非常不尋常的，但我們在這個領域與挪威政府、道達爾公司、殼牌公司和Equinor都是合作伙伴。 我們是這個項目的技術供應商，這個項目將在2024年上線； 斯倫貝謝公司還參與了一些用于勘探石油和天然氣的地下技術的應用。 同樣的技術也將用于將二氧化碳輸送到廢棄的儲油層中。 這是一個非常令人興奮的領域。 我們不相信在沒有CCS的情況下，你能在2050年或更早之前實現凈零碳排放。”

專家們還討論了利用技術實現氫經濟戰略的重要性，以及將這些技術規模化的努力。  

威利斯說：“我們與一些公司進行了一些有意義的對話，他們正在圍繞氫經濟制定戰略，無論是綠色氫還是藍色氫。” “公用事業公司甚至在考慮如何將氫氣融入到他們的電網運營中，因此我們參與了很多有意義的對話，因為我們希望確保這些技術能夠商業化和規模化。這是兩大障礙，我相信數據將成為這兩大領域的基礎，也是微軟公司可以發揮優勢的領域。”  

斯倫貝謝公司新能源執行副總裁阿肖克·貝拉尼表示，重型汽車可能是第一個廣泛使用氫燃料的市場，但該行業有必要考慮整個價值鏈，以加快氫燃料的商業化過程。

貝拉尼說，“燃料電池行業和電解槽行業必須繼續前進，才能生產這些產品。 我認為歐洲在這方面做得很好，他們努力發展整個價值鏈，包括氫的用戶市場。”“當我們試圖將電解槽工業化時，我們與阿塞洛-米塔爾建立了合作關系，將其用于鋼鐵行業，或用于水泥行業的固井公司，或用于可再生能源的轉化，從而可以出口等等。”

李峻 編譯自 天然氣加工新聞網

原文如下：

Digitalization is key in industry pursuit of net-zero

Panelists agreed that digitalization is necessary to provide real-time solutions as the energy aims toward net-zero goals during a discussion on technologies for zero carbon at CERAWeek.

Gwena?lle Avice-Huet, Schneider Electric Chief Strategy & Sustainability Officer and Member of the Schneider Electric Executive Committee, said digitalization and behavioral changes surrounding energy production and consumption provides opportunities for energy efficiency throughout the industry.

“We’ve been working with a company called Autograde to optimize the energy system and to optimize the network. Basically, you have numbers of assets that are producing energy. You have the big assets that we are thinking about (e.g.) coal, gas, or renewables like wind and solar, and you also have distributed energy resources,” Avice-Hunt said. “Energy transition is thinking to become more efficient in the way we use energy. It’s not only thinking about production, it’s also thinking about the usages and the way we consume energy. That’s what we did with Autograde for the utilities sectors so they could have in-hand distributed energy resources, and at the same time, people wanting to cooperate with an expert to have energy management.”

While cloud data storage has allowed for real-time solutions to be applied across the industry, panelists also discussed the benefits of digitalization on a wider scale, including safety and security, commercialization of energy carriers like hydrogen, and increasing process speeds on developing projects and partnerships aiming to reduce carbon emissions.

Darryl Willis, Corporate Vice President Energy Industry at Microsoft, said that considering continuity of operations and minimizing risks are top priority when discussing digitalization with energy companies.

“In terms of what Microsoft is doing just beyond the cloud, it’s really thinking about what technologies are required to get to net-zero. We’ve got our own internal net-zero ambitions, but we also realize that it’s not going to be good enough for Microsoft to get to net-zero by 2030 if the rest of the world does not do it by 2050 or sooner,” said Willis. “A big bet that we’ve made is we’ve created our own journey to work on carbon capture and storage. And very unusual for a technology company to be involved with this but we’re partners in this space with the government of Norway, Total, Shell, and Equinor. We are the technology provider for this project that will go live in 2024; Schlumberger is also involved in helping to use some of the subsurface technology that explores for oil and gas. That same technology will be used to deliver carbon dioxide into abandoned reservoirs. That’s an area that’s really exciting. We do not believe you can get to net-zero in 2050 or sooner without CCS.”

Panelists also discussed the importance of utilizing technology to strategize the hydrogen economy and efforts to bring these technologies to scale.

“We’ve been having some interesting conversations with companies as they develop strategies around the hydrogen economy, whether it’s green hydrogen or blue hydrogen,” Willis said. “Utility companies are even thinking about how to integrate hydrogen into their grid operations so there is a lot of interesting conversations we are involved in because we want to ensure that some of these technologies are commercialized and able to scale. Those are two big barriers, and those are the things that I believe data will be fundamental to, and areas where Microsoft can play to its strengths.”

Ashok Belani, Schlumberger New Energy Executive Vice President, said that heavy-duty vehicles could be the first market that creates widespread hydrogen usage, but it is necessary for the industry to consider the entire value chain to speed up the commercialization process.

“The fuel cell industry and the electrolyzer industry must move on to be able to produce these products. The way we have tried to approach it, and I think Europe is doing quite well in that they try to develop the whole value chain, including the user markets of hydrogen,” Belani said. “When we are trying to industrialize the electrolyzer, we have a relationship with Arcelor Mittal for using it in the steel industry or cementing companies for using it in the cement industry, or using it in transforming renewable power so that it can be exported and so on.”